civil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 公民的， 市民的； 民间的； 民用的； 有礼貌的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was civil and affable, but she could hardly conceal her intimate conviction that she was not quite as others were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were, in truth, very rugged, noisy fellows, and quite brutal among themselves, though civil enough to their two passengers.
-- She had merely asked a civil question, and to be sure she knew it would meet with a civil answer.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a civil division and a criminal one."
-- The man was speaking of a case that was being tried in the civil division, showing his familiarity with the judges and the famous lawyers by referring to them by name.
-- The greatest crowd was before the Civil Court, where the case of which the portly gentleman was telling the jurymen was being tried.
-- 777 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, this 28th day of April, 188-, decrees that Simon Kartinkin, thirty- three years of age, and Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, be deprived of all civil rights, and sent to penal servitude, Kartinkin for eight, Maslova for the term of four years, under conditions prescribed by ch.
-- Euphemia Bochkova is deprived of all civil and special rights and privileges, and is to be confined in jail for the period of three years under conditions prescribed by ch.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice thought it would not be civil to say 'No,' though it wasn't at all what she wanted.
-- What she really wanted to know was, whether it could sting or not, but she thought this wouldn't be quite a civil question to ask.
-- This was rather sudden, Alice thought: but, after such a very strong hint that she ought to be going, she felt that it would hardly be civil to stay.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But civil you can speak, and shall, George Merry, you may lay to that."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so dark that I could not see the means of exit; and, as I wandered round, I heard another specimen of their civil behaviour amongst each other.
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